GraceCJG

Hi Damien! Spectacular! Much Appreciated! I will do it as soon as I return, late tonight or tomorrow morning. Still in mid-work rush...

Hi Damien, I would be willing to post the problem areas of the images to you via e-mail but prefer not to post them to the forum. Blessings Grace

Deeply appreciate all the assistance Damien! Many Thanks! Just a heads up. I will be away from my desk for a while, I will be headed out today at 3 pm for some photography work and will be returning tomorrow at about 10 pm, or so. I will check back in as soon as I return.

Update... It's 10:30 A.m. Sunny Blue sky outside. All 7 windows are open. In photoshop - checked the prints this morning. Still having the same issue with the 1st of the three, with the red and green not showing properly, yellow, orange and purple also not quite right. Over all its dim, with some colors fadining into nearly non-visible detail. In one place on the photo the red I see on the print, looks like more like there is no red/pinkish tone there at all on the screen image in photoshop, the detail basically just is so faded its nearly vanished into a more off white/pinkish patch, meanwhile in the print there is a clear redish pink to that exact same spot. The second print, is also dim overall. The green and red bits in it are also faded, barely audible. The spot I know to be red/ish pink on the print, looks more like a dim black, and if I squint at it I can almost pick up the redish tones. The greenish blue is almost faded into a grey but not quite if I lean in and examine, but still reminds me more of a grey with a faint greenish blue tint. Different from the print as well.. The Third print. The bright aqua in the print, looks more dim, not vivid at all and almost green. The purple and red are faded into non-existence almost. in photoshop, rather the same color just very dim compared to the actual print. The other lighter purples and oranges are also faded, more of a dim color. basically an overall dimness that makes the colors almost look like a different color than the actual physical print... No clue what to do, but, something is definitely off :-/ Hmm...

Uh oh! Guilty! Palm to face! It was neither! I will match them again in the morning using photoshop to open the image file!

Also, upon checking other prints, its so dim, that certain colors are not even appearing at all. The second print I tried has reds and greens in it, very visible in the physical print, but on the screen, it looks like certain colors are not even there. Everything seems quite dark overall, unfortunately to the point where details visible on the print are not on the screen. No clue what could be wrong...

Just checked the print in the daylight. (This morning blue skies.) it is 9:52 A.M here, the print's colors are vibrant, compared to the screen, for example the yellow on the print looks, like a pretty and vibrant yellow, while the yellow of the same file on the screen (not in the spyder 5 software) I opened the file directly so I could make it large, and compared it to the now calibrated screen. It looks dim and muddy looking, not anything like the physical print it's self. I am not quite sure what I did wrong in calibration... Or what the issue is. But the screen and print match even less than prior to calibration at the moment... Any ideas?

No it won't drag at all, and the spot to expand it is grayed out...

Any ideas what to do in a room with 7 windows to get consistent lighting? (it's a rented place, so my only idea is maybe more lamps for at night?) Off to sleep for now, feeling not too physically well need some sleep before the early start, work in the morning... Deeply appreciate all the assistance Damien! I will check the prints with the screen first thing before leaving the house tomorrow. Hopefully lighting will be good tomorrow morning.

Sorry Damien! I am half asleep here, extremely low on sleep right now... Just realized I should have had the spyder software not minimized !

That's a relief not to have to compare to uncalibrated and calibrated images in the software! The tiny image in the software are rough to see clearly! I'll check the prints to the screen in the morning when lighting in my room becomes bright enough. Yes I will make a screen shot of my screen now. Anything in particular you would like open or just the screen in general?

The un-calibrated one looks lighter than the calibrated one which looks much dimmer in color. however it is dark outside, and my lighting in my room, frankly sucks. It was dim evening light plus lights on in the room by the time I got to the "turn the lights back on" of the calibration process. I cannot seem to make the image in spyder 5 bigger, so I have to really lean in to try and see details in the comparing print part of it. No clue what I may have done wrong, or maybe I am just sitting staring for no reason and I just need to get used to it. but, everything looks so dark, rather the screen looks darker than the prints, but maybe its the lighting...

My apologies Damien! I was waiting to message till I had an answer to that. I have all the lights on in here, and I have been sitting comparing print to calibrated and not calibrated. and it still does not look right! I sitting here trying to figure out what I did wrong.

Alright I will re-start the calibration process and continue on from the setting at 15 for screen brightness and the output reading of 92. Thank You Damien! The dim feel of the screen startled me as when I matched prints earlier I set the brightness of the screen to 92, so 15 seemed like a really wild change to set it at for an out put of 92.

Okay the calibration just took a nose dive. I got to the part where you pull the blinds down and start the spyder 5 pro up. It went through all the colors fine then I got to the part where you click update after adjusting the brightness then see what the read out is and continue to adjust. I knocked the brightness down from 92 pre calibration brightness setting to 15! Which made it give me a reading of 92. My screen looks super dim at the moment with a brightness of 15. The first read out before clicking update was my current screen brightness was 231.7. I adjusted, it went to 231.0 , I adjusted again it went to 241! I hit cancel after I adjusted it down to 15 in order to get the reading of 92. I am super confused. What on earth did I do wrong? Appreciate the time and patience Damien! Thank You!

Damien, I am in the first part of the calibration. I assume the fact that my monitor has a place to set it to warm cool etc. means I should check the kelvin presets box? yes/no?

I have set the contrast back to where it originally was at 50% (factory settings) and will only leave the brightness change at 92. It's already pretty dim here but I am going to see what I can do about calibrating now.

I mean adjust the brightness and the contrast settings on the physical screen. It just does not seem to really match the prints well no matter what I do. Waiting for it to get dark outside before I calibrate the screen. Some of the 7 windows don't have blinds... drat, just checked and all the settings on the screen are back to the previous settings I must have touched the wrong thing when trying to get into the menu just now, luckily I remember my numbers. Brightness was 92 and contrast I believe was 59.

Hi Damien! Just now back from being ill. Here is the latest update. 1. I am in the process of attempting to create better lighting in my room. 2. I have contacted the screen manufacturer company, and figured out how to operate the 6 unmarked buttons. 3. I have examined 3 prints in comparison with the screen. I adjusted brightness and contrast to the closest match. I set the ecolor management management temperature to "warm." I have fiddled with these settings for sometime, as the pre-calibration instructions you wrote suggested. However, no matter what I do, my prints actually look brighter than my screen. What I mean is the colors in the prints are a brighter deeper color, and the screen is not even showing some of the colors it is so dim at the moment, it seems to have the same deeper color but it is so dark the shade of the color either looks ridiculously less vibrant or just fades off into the dimness so much it isn't very perceivable. The lighter colors where there is yellow in the print has a sharper edge which does not show on the actual print, and keeps wanting to grab some yellow where the print looks more white. I can adjust that some but, it all seems rather mismatched at the moment . It is 1:21 in the afternoon, all 7 windows are open and it is a bright blue sky, so I think the brightness in the room is good at the moment. basically I have gotten the print as good as I can, with the manual buttons prior to calibration, any ideas what I may have done wrong or, does this sound about right for a pre-calibrated screen look? Best wishes and hope your weekend out was spectacular! Blessings! And Many Thanks! Grace

It is super bright, with a white/blue feel from my eyes point of view. When not editing photos I usually turn on f.lux to give my eyes a warmer light rest. Hopefully calibration will fix the screen enough so I can edit in the daylight. I just lose all sense of details till I can make it either darker around the screen with my tent or wait till night

I've tried it with all the windows open in the day, but, it's so bright in my room, my eyes cannot make out a lot of the detail on the images. What would the proper solution be?

No worries, it's not quite as bad as it sounds! I have been learning basics as fast as I can . I have been using photoshop's camera raw filter for most of my editing when it concerns an image being too dark or other minor issues. And can successfully get rid of bug and dust issues. Resizing an image isn't one I have learned yet, as I never change the size of my images prior to sending them to the print place. Still need to learn to create a watermark and obviously resize in photoshop prior to getting the site up and running. Luckily the prints I completed came out really well. Unfortunately I had already edited 45 files in photoshop before I learned calibrating my screen was a crucial item on the "to dos" of photo editing. Hopefully I won't have to start over and re-edit all of them. I guess, I will find out once I get this screen calibrated. If I calibrate at night will a single lamp on behind me be a problem? I am guessing given the 7 windows in the room, night would be the best time to do this.

Still working on it. 1. Successfully completed adjusting Firefox from your wonderful article! 2. Downloaded and installed Spyder 5 Pro software. 3. Adjusted and checked the lighting in the room. Created a desk tent over my monitor to make the lighting consistent (My room has 7 windows and 1 lamp. The lamp is not in my home made tent atop my desk. The tent is just a smaller table resting on top of a longer table with blankets and towels appropriately tucked and a place for my head to pop in. It seems to work fantastically for the daytime when details are harder to see on the screen, due to the level of light in my room. It does not seem to be needed at night, where I either have 1 lamp on or all lights off and just the monitor lighting the room. The tent fort for photography took some doing but seems like it will work well. 4. still fighting the 6 unmarked buttons on my screen and waiting to calibrate screen till I can figure out how to make them work consistently. 5. Plan on getting back to it at my first available slot, right after work tomorrow night.

That's spectacular! Thank You Damien!